Mother Quotes
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My family and friends were definitely the key to my recovery. One thing that I do suggest is that anyone dealing with a life-threatening illness like cancer choose a point person for people to call to find out how you are doing - a sister, brother, mother, father, daughter, son, or close friend.
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I have quite a lot of fans in Holland because that is where my mother is from, in fact I have a fan club there, and the fans don't always get the chance to see us drive the cars because getting to races across Europe isn't always possible for them.
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My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 years old, which he always said was the worst experience in his life. When he was 8, his father disappeared and he was on his own from the age of 8.
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I was encouraged by my mother and, to a lesser extent, by my father.
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My mother used to go out on her own, and I used to have to keep a look out for my stepfather coming home.
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I wish I had been a better mother and a more compassionate and understanding wife in both of my marriages.
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Whatever is said about roles drying up, I intend to keep working. Certainly now the roles couldn't be more interesting - playing mothers, divorcees. I think it's going to be exciting to play a mother of teenagers. The longer your life, the deeper it gets.
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The man who has graduated from the flogging block at Eton to the bench from which he sentences the garrotter to be flogged is the same social product as the garrotter who has been kicked by his father and cuffed by his mother until he has grown strong enough to throttle and rob the rich citizen whose money he desires.
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I would drive down in my Volkswagen Jetta to Los Angeles and just audition, audition, audition, audition, and hopefully get something. I did that for two years, and the third year I came down, I auditioned for 'How I Met Your Mother.'
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I think that my mother, Frances Dorothy Peck, modeled her whole life on that of Scarlett O'Hara.
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So my father grew up in an orphanage in Boston. He was then adopted by an elderly childless couple from Maine, who gave him the name of Mitchell. He moved to Maine, and there he met my mother and was married.
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The speed limit on most of Maui's highways is forty miles per hour, but my mother never went above thirty.
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She was a genius, my mother.
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There are very few women from my mother's generation who worked like that, who just kept a career going all her life and raised children and had horrible relationships and lost all her money and got it back again.
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Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I've ever done.
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My father, Melvin van Peebles, and my mother were both very active politically when I was a kid. The first time I was allowed to stay up late was to attend a demonstration.
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We need the church as urgently as a starving baby needs his mother’s milk.
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If my mother hadn't encouraged me, I would be nervous and feeling like I'm doing something wrong.
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I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and my father obviously did too.
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My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized.
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But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24.
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I'm not a big fan of doing what my mother wants me to do, like any daughter.
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I find it very difficult to be two different characters at the same time - actress and mother.
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My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist.
